Blandings Castle. WODEHOUSE, P. G.

First US edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer, David A. Jasen, "To David from Plum, P. G. Wodehouse", to the front free endpaper. David A. Jasen (1937-2022), ragtime scholar, performer, and a leading Wodehouse authority, shared a passion for music with the prolific humourist who was also famed during his lifetime as a musical lyricist. Jasen acknowledged that only Wodehouse's close friends and family knew him as "Plum", and his personal bond with the author was immortalized when Jasen became the dedicatee of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963). This collection of 12 short stories were initially serialized in the British magazine the Strand and in various American magazines. The novel was published in London five months prior as Blandings Castle and Elsewhere. Jasen 53a; McIlvaine A53b. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in green, devices on front cover in green, top edge green, others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine toned, light soiling and rubbing, with wear to corners, front inner hinge split but sound. A very good copy.